Long regarded as staid and elitist, San Francisco’s Legion of Honor has now begun to revitalize, welcoming projects by Sarah Lucas, Julian Schnabel, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Urs Fischer, and Alexandre Singh.

Perhaps no single painter had more influence on pioneering modernists than Eugène Delacroix—a quintessential Romantic, in both art and politics, who responded to art’s new market realities with dynamic compositions, vivid color, and frankly melodramatic content.

Trained in classical Indian dance, New York–based performer and choreographer Kuldeep Singh infuses his staged meldings of music, narrative, movement, and mise-en-scène with a contemporary queer sensibility.

These volumes of Art in America’s history have not yet been digitized.

Founded in 1913 by art critic, historian and collector Frederic Fairchild Sherman under founding editor Wilhelm R. Valentiner, A.i.A., in its early issues, focused on old masters in American collections. For much of the ‘20s, the magazine was named Art in America and Elsewhere, reflecting its increasing geographic reach.